#cal

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#i #i am #i can #methodical #one thing

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#come #contrary #despite #even #fallacy

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#insane #logical #most #person #sometimes

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically. ↗

— James Spader

#barack obama #civil #civil war #divisiveness #faces

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#change #political #process #social #social change

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#already #call #i #intrusion #leading

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#calculator #depth #emotional #equally #how

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#back #change #forward #give #political

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#ask #gets #letters #manuscripts #might

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#chooses #concerns #cultural #deal #given